The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-03
EVE IN THE GARDEN.
The Earliest Manifestation of Woman
Love for Jewclry.

The Earliest Manifestation of woman's
Love for Jewclry.
l suppose Eve. as soon as she. was
born, picked up the first bit of broken
glass she found in the Garden of Eden
and fixed it in her hair. That was
womanlike, but quite possibly Adam
had long before that taken bit of
rusty wire, and, setting a pebble in it,
worn it on his little finger as ring,
with conscious pride. History does
not say that either wire or glass was
known at that time, but we don't know.
We are not half so sure of what history
says rs we are of what it does not say.
So far as we can make out, Cain
was smoked early in the begin
ming of the world, but history does
not state it. There is one week in
the history of the world that makes all
the trouble. 1t was the first week, and
it's just like going into a new home or
taking of a new situation-you'r re-
all wrong the first week. Then you
get all right and things 60 perfectly
smooth till you want to move. Now
about getting married it's quite the re-
verse. The first weeks all right. Then
the trouble begins. That first week Of
! the world is the battle-ground of all
disputes, and, like other similar PEI
riods, some people think it lasted sir
thousand years. 1t does not concern
us particularly, except that if we had
been there at the time we would have
altered things considerably. We would
have had every one of our neighbors
made differently-we are all right our,
selves. However, it is too late to brood
over what has been fixed, and l am
afraid we've got to take it as it is. But
to resume. Can't you see Eve fixing a
blue and pink shell to grass string,
putting it around her neck, and stand
ing by the summer waters edge trying
to get peep at herself to see whether
it wasn't handsome? 1t might be that
Adam, in the first burst of affection,
caught gold beetle and stuffed it, and
made it into q brooch for her. Let the
imagination try to fancy how she pinned
it on, but she'd get it on somehow-if
he gave it to her.
1t was some old poet who had ideals
and fantasies, and never went out into
real life or had to buy a Christmas
present, that first called woman jewel.
The term Is not inapt nowadays, for
the modern jewelry is very expensive
in the setting, and am told that some
jewels are not worth as much as the
gold they're set in. can hardly be-
liev2 this to any great extent. The
number of people who are real experts
about woman is as small as the num-
Der of diamond experts; but the num-
Der Of people who think they are is
much larger. 1t is hard to tell diamonds;
but you see flaw and the fellow who's
selling the stone explains that it has
met with some trifing accident in be-
ing polished, which does not in the
faintest reduce the value. It's the
same with girl. You speak to her
mother about some little defect, and
she explains that when she was very
young she fell on her left ear, and she's
been subject to little infinitesimal fits
of temper ever since. The poet that
first struck the simile builded better
than he knew, and would be disguised,
perhaps, to find how numerously it fits.
Woman is jewell but she always
wants other iewels-and they're not
other women.-SoN Frsncisco CAronicls.